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Dame Fanny Waterman
Broadcast | 04 Jul 2010
Piano teacher
Music | Felix Mendelssohn - Perpetuum Mobile in C
Liz Smith
Broadcast | 09 Mar 2008
Royle Family actor
Music | Felix Mendelssohn - A Midsummer Nights Dream Overture
Simon Russell Beale
Broadcast | 08 Jul 2007
Classical actor
Music | Felix Mendelssohn - Octet for Strings in E flat major -1st movement
Rt Hon David Cameron MP
Broadcast | 28 May 2006
Leader of the Conservative Party (became Prime Minister in 2010), Politician - Conservative
Music | Felix Mendelssohn - O, for the wings of a dove (from Hear My Prayer)
Daniel Barenboim
Broadcast | 07 May 2006
Conductor, Pianist
Music | Felix Mendelssohn - Violin Concerto in E minor - 1st movement
David Hope
Broadcast | 11 Dec 2005
Former Archbishop of York
Music | Felix Mendelssohn - Lift thine eyes (from Elijah)
Mary Midgley
Broadcast | 20 Nov 2005
Philosopher
Music | Felix Mendelssohn - The Hebrides Overture (Fingal's Cave)
Ralph Kohn
Broadcast | 21 Mar 2004
Businessman, Singer, Singer - baritone
Music | Felix Mendelssohn - Violin Concerto in E minor - 2nd movement
Sir Aaron Klug
Broadcast | 12 May 2002
Former President of the Royal Society, Chemist, Nobel Prize winner
Music | Felix Mendelssohn - Violin Concerto in E minor - 1st movement
Fiona Reynolds
Broadcast | 07 Apr 2002
Director General of the National Trust
Music | Felix Mendelssohn - Octet for Strings in E flat major -1st movement
Susana Walton
Broadcast | 13 Jan 2002
Horticulturalist
Music | Felix Mendelssohn - Song without Words 'Venetian Gondola Song'
Sir Thomas Allen
Broadcast | 03 Jun 2001
Opera singer - baritone
Music | Felix Mendelssohn - Symphony No. 3 in A minor 'Scottish'
Professor Sir Richard Doll
Broadcast | 18 Feb 2001
Epidemiologist
Music | Felix Mendelssohn - Violin Concerto in E Minor
John Bird
Broadcast | 28 May 2000
Actor, Satirist, Comedian
Music | Felix Mendelssohn - Octet for Strings in E flat major
Dr Jane Goodall
Broadcast | 09 Jan 2000
Primatologist, Naturalist
Music | Felix Mendelssohn - Violin Concerto in E minor
Sir Richard Sykes
Broadcast | 05 Dec 1999
Businessman
Music | Felix Mendelssohn - Symphony No. 4 in A major 'Italian' - 1st movement
Helen Bamber
Broadcast | 02 May 1999
Scientist, Campaigner, Psychotherapist
Music | Felix Mendelssohn - Song without Words in G major, Op. 62/1
John Keegan
Broadcast | 06 Dec 1998
Military historian
Music | Felix Mendelssohn - The Hebrides Overture (Fingal's Cave)
Berthold Goldschmidt
Broadcast | 13 Nov 1994
Conductor, Composer
Music | Felix Mendelssohn - A Midsummer Nights Dream Overture
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